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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1607 | Jamestown founded – first permanent English settlement |
| 1619 | First enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia |
| 1620 | Mayflower Compact – first agreement for self-government |
| 1630 | Massachusetts Bay Colony founded by Puritans |
| 1676 | Bacon’s Rebellion – class tensions, colonial unrest |
| 1692 | Salem Witch Trials – Puritan theocracy and fear |
| 1730s–1740s | First Great Awakening – religious revival |
| 1754–1763 | French and Indian War – British debt, colonial taxes |
| 1763 | Proclamation of 1763 – banned colonial expansion past Appalachians |
| 1765 | Stamp Act – first direct British tax, colonial protests |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre – British troops kill civilians |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party – protest against Tea Act |
| 1774 | Intolerable Acts – punishment for Tea Party |
| 1775 | Battles of Lexington and Concord – Revolution begins |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence – colonial break from Britain |
| 1777 | Battle of Saratoga – turning point of Revolution |
| 1781 | Articles of Confederation ratified – weak federal gov |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris – ended Revolutionary War |
| 1786 | Shays’ Rebellion – exposed weakness of Articles |
| 1787 | Constitutional Convention – wrote new Constitution |
| 1789 | George Washington becomes first president |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights ratified – protected individual rights |
| 1793 | Proclamation of Neutrality – avoid foreign alliances |
| 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion – tested federal power |
| 1796 | Washington’s Farewell Address – warned against parties, alliances |
| 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts – suppressed opposition |
| 1800 | Election of 1800 – peaceful transfer of power |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase – doubled U.S. territory |
| 1803 | Marbury v. Madison – established judicial review |
| 1812–1815 | War of 1812 – U.S. vs. Britain, nationalism rises |
| 1814 | Hartford Convention – Federalists lose credibility |
| 1817–1825 | Era of Good Feelings – one-party unity |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise – maintained balance of slave/free states |
| 1823 | Monroe Doctrine – warned Europe against colonizing Americas |
| 1824 | Corrupt Bargain – Adams elected over Jackson |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected – rise of the "common man" |
| 1830 | Indian Removal Act – Trail of Tears begins |
| 1831 | Nat Turner’s Rebellion – increased Southern slave laws |
| 1832 | Nullification Crisis – challenged federal authority |
| 1836 | Texas declares independence from Mexico |
| 1845 | Manifest Destiny – belief in U.S. expansion |
| 1846–1848 | Mexican-American War – U.S. gains Southwest |
| 1848 | Seneca Falls Convention – start of women's rights movement |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 – included Fugitive Slave Act |
| 1852 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin – exposed slavery’s cruelty |
| 1854 | Kansas-Nebraska Act – popular sovereignty over slavery |
| 1856 | Bleeding Kansas – violent conflict over slavery |
| 1857 | Dred Scott v. Sandford – slaves = property |
| 1859 | John Brown’s Raid – intensified sectional tensions |
| 1860 | Lincoln elected – Southern states secede |
| 1861 | Civil War begins – Fort Sumter attacked |
| 1862 | Homestead Act – encouraged westward migration |
| 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation – freed slaves in Confederacy |
| 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg – major Union victory |
| 1865 | Civil War ends – Lee surrenders at Appomattox |
| 1865 | Lincoln assassinated – Andrew Johnson becomes president |
| 1865 | 13th Amendment – abolished slavery |
| 1867 | Reconstruction Acts – military control of South |
| 1868 | 14th Amendment – granted citizenship to former slaves |
| 1869 | Transcontinental Railroad completed – coast-to-coast travel |
| 1870 | 15th Amendment – voting rights for Black men |
| 1877 | Compromise of 1877 – ended Reconstruction |
| 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act – banned Chinese immigration |
| 1886 | Haymarket Riot – labor protest turns violent |
| 1890 | Wounded Knee Massacre – end of Indian resistance |
| 1890 | Sherman Antitrust Act – regulated monopolies |
| 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson – "separate but equal" |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War – U.S. gains empire |
| 1901 | Theodore Roosevelt becomes president – progressive era begins |
| 1906 | The Jungle published – led to food safety laws |
| 1913 | 16th Amendment – income tax |
| 1914–1918 | World War I – global conflict, U.S. joins in 1917 |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles / 18th Amendment (Prohibition) |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment – women’s suffrage |
| 1924 | Immigration Act – limited immigration from Asia and Eastern Europe |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash – Great Depression begins |
| 1933 | New Deal begins – FDR’s recovery plan |
| 1935 | Social Security Act – welfare for elderly, unemployed |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor – U.S. enters WWII |
| 1942 | Japanese Internment – Executive Order 9066 |
| 1944 | D-Day Invasion – Allies land in France |
| 1945 | WWII ends / atomic bombs dropped |
| 1947 | Truman Doctrine – start of containment policy |
| 1950–1953 | Korean War – U.S. fights communism |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education – ended school segregation |
| 1955–1956 | Montgomery Bus Boycott – led by MLK |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis – U.S. vs. USSR near war |
| 1963 | MLK’s “I Have a Dream” / JFK assassinated |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act – banned discrimination |
| 1965 | Voting Rights Act – outlawed literacy tests |
| 1965 | Immigration Act – ended racial quotas |
| 1968 | MLK and RFK assassinated / Tet Offensive |
| 1972 | Watergate break-in – leads to Nixon resignation |
| 1973 | Roe v. Wade – legalized abortion |
| 1979 | Iran Hostage Crisis – 52 Americans held |
| 1980 | Reagan elected – conservative era begins |
| 1989 | Berlin Wall falls – Cold War ends |
| 1991 | Soviet Union collapses – U.S. is sole superpower |
| 2001 | 9/11 attacks – war on terror begins |
| 2003 | Iraq War begins – Saddam Hussein removed |
| 2008 | Barack Obama elected – first Black president |
| 2010 | Affordable Care Act signed |
| 2020 | COVID-19 pandemic begins |
| 2021 | Capitol insurrection / Biden inaugurated |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the American Revolution? | French and Indian War → Proclamation of 1763 → Stamp Act → Lexington and Concord |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Constitution’s creation? | Articles of Confederation → Shays’ Rebellion → Constitutional Convention → Ratification of Constitution |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the rise of political parties? | Hamilton’s Financial Plan → Jefferson’s opposition → Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans → Election of 1800 |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Civil War? | Compromise of 1850 → Kansas-Nebraska Act → Dred Scott → Lincoln elected |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Abolition Movement? | Second Great Awakening → William Lloyd Garrison → Nat Turner’s Rebellion → Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the end of Reconstruction? | 15th Amendment → KKK/violence → Compromise of 1877 → Jim Crow laws |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the expansion of U.S. democracy? | Property requirements lifted → Jacksonian Democracy → Universal white male suffrage → Popular campaigning |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Market Revolution? | Erie Canal → Lowell System → Telegraph → Railroads |
| What are the connected causation sequences for westward expansion? | Louisiana Purchase → Indian Removal Act → Manifest Destiny → Mexican-American War |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Women’s Suffrage Movement? | Seneca Falls → Progressive reformers → WWI female labor → 19th Amendment |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Second Great Awakening? | Rise in religious enthusiasm → Moral reform movements → Temperance Movement → Abolitionism |
| What are the connected causation sequences for U.S. imperialism? | Spanish-American War → Annexation of Philippines → Open Door Policy → Panama Canal |
| What are the connected causation sequences for Progressive Era reforms? | Muckrakers → The Jungle → Pure Food and Drug Act → FDA created |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the rise of labor movements? | Industrialization → Poor working conditions → Knights of Labor → Haymarket Riot |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Great Depression? | Stock Market Crash → Bank failures → Unemployment crisis → New Deal |
| What are the connected causation sequences for U.S. entry into WWII? | Treaty of Versailles → Rise of fascism → Pearl Harbor → D-Day |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Cold War? | Yalta Conference → Iron Curtain speech → Truman Doctrine → Berlin Airlift |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Korean War? | China becomes communist → U.S. containment → North Korea invades South → Truman sends troops |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Vietnam War? | Domino Theory → Gulf of Tonkin Resolution → Tet Offensive → Anti-war protests |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Civil Rights Movement? | WWII Double V Campaign → Brown v. Board → Montgomery Bus Boycott → Civil Rights Act |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Black Power Movement? | Slow federal change → Malcolm X speeches → Watts Riots → Formation of Black Panthers |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Women’s Liberation Movement? | Betty Friedan → NOW founded → Title IX → Roe v. Wade |
| What are the connected causation sequences for Latino civil rights activism? | Bracero Program → César Chávez organizing → Delano Grape Strike → Bilingual Education Act |
| What are the connected causation sequences for Native American activism? | Termination Policy → Alcatraz Occupation → Trail of Broken Treaties → Indian Self-Determination Act |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the LGBTQ+ movement? | Lavender Scare → Stonewall Riots → AIDS crisis → Obergefell v. Hodges |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the environmental movement? | Rachel Carson’s *Silent Spring* → Earth Day → Clean Air Act → EPA created |
| What are the connected causation sequences for McCarthyism? | Cold War fears → HUAC → McCarthy hearings → Red Scare declines |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Watergate scandal? | Pentagon Papers → Watergate break-in → Nixon resignation → Public distrust of government |
| What are the connected causation sequences for Reaganomics? | Stagflation of the 1970s → Tax cuts → Deregulation → Federal debt rise |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the end of the Cold War? | Arms race → Gorbachev reforms → Berlin Wall falls → USSR collapses |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the War on Terror? | 9/11 → Afghanistan War → Iraq invasion → Rise of ISIS |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Great Society? | JFK assassination → LBJ elected → War on Poverty → Medicare/Medicaid |
| What are the connected causation sequences for public education reform? | Sputnik launched → National Defense Education Act → *A Nation at Risk* → No Child Left Behind |
| What are the connected causation sequences for immigration policy changes? | Quota Acts (1920s) → 1965 Immigration Act → Rise in Latin American immigration → DACA |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the rise of conservatism? | Liberal 1960s → Silent Majority → Reagan elected → Moral Majority grows |
| What are the connected causation sequences for suburbanization? | GI Bill → Highway Act of 1956 → White flight → Inner-city decline |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Second Red Scare? | Soviets get the bomb → Rosenbergs → Loyalty Oaths → Hollywood Blacklist |
| What are the connected causation sequences for globalization? | Cold War ends → NAFTA → WTO → Outsourcing |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the 2008 financial crisis? | Housing bubble → Subprime mortgage crash → Wall Street collapse → Government bailout |
| What are the connected causation sequences for the Affordable Care Act? | Rising healthcare costs → Recession of 2008 → Obama elected → Obamacare passed |
| What are the connected causation sequences for voting rights expansion? | 15th Amendment → 19th Amendment → Voting Rights Act → Shelby v. Holder |
| What are the connected causation sequences for Populist movements? | Industrialization → Farmer discontent → Populist Party → Cross of Gold speech |
| What are the connected causation sequences for nativism in U.S. history? | Irish/German immigration → Know-Nothing Party → Chinese Exclusion Act → Quota Acts |
| What are the connected causation sequences for public health reform? | Tenement living → Jacob Riis → Progressive reform → Housing codes |
| What are the connected causation sequences for police reform debates? | Rodney King beating → LA Riots → Black Lives Matter → George Floyd protests |
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mconnor12